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Like many a new band, ChartJackers are forging their career online, reports

It is an impressive turnout for a school night. A couple of hundred pimply teens, braces glinting as they sing, jump up and down in a club on Brick Lane, high on cans of Tango. Those to whom puberty hasn’t yet given an advantage strain to see from behind those it has stretched too fast. All lip-sync verbatim. But the band on stage has never appeared on Saturday morning television or been on a radio playlist.

ChartJackers are a new boy band exclusively crowd-sourced from YouTube. They met and agreed their project online. Their new single, I’ve Got Nothing, was